Exit-Interview
She’s spent four years at SLU And is moving on I’ve spent fourteen years at SLU And am moving on We had class together fall 2008 Her tender sophomore year We’ve met ten or twelve…
Category: No Time for Poetry but Exactly What Is
I Heard
I heard that Lenka is the best correspondent in the Western hemisphere, the kind whom you want to reread twenty times. I heard someone give a phenomenological analysis of a 25 year-old evangelical Marxist’s zeal….
That Feeling in My Chest by Alexis Bockting
Alexis Bockting wrote this by hand in the morning Crossroads class today and handed it to me afterward. I wanted to share it with you… That feeling in my chest… is sensitive, alters with a…
You Know Who You Are
You grace this world And my little world Within this whirl of worlds
What Catches the Attention (And What Doesn’t)
A friend recently said about a group of doctors she knows: “They talk all about Lady Gaga but nothing about the wars we’re in.”
You Asked, “When Can I See You?” The Answer Is…
10 minutes after you wake up At 9:30 p.m. on the 7th, 14th, 21st and 28th of each month By the tower in 88 degree heat A January walk up the avenue after the sidewalks…
The Journey of a Thousand Miles Begins…
My friend Randa seems to know everyone in St. Louis I’ve seen her legal pad of lists of people she must see Within a time span that doesn’t seem humanly possible I could be sitting…
Easy To Forget
As long as we are motivated by the desire to punish each other, there will be no end to the hostilities and there will be no happiness in me, in you, or between us. –Thich…
Bearing Witness
for Sandra Tamari Yet it was plain to us that by reckoning with Taha’s exceptional personality and poems, many of these American audiences were also reckoning for the first time with a Palestinian—not as a…
Writing down Bones/32
Dear Poet, I wonder When you cried Where you cried Why you cried I cried living that story I cried writing that book I cry thinking of you crying When you do have words Or…